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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
# sz-rm-meta.sh — strip metadata from image files.
#
# sz-rm-meta.sh [options] FILE...
#
# -l, --list report what would be removed; change nothing
# -o, --out DIR write cleaned copies into DIR instead of editing in place
# --keep-icc keep the embedded ICC colour profile (stripped by default)
# --keep-xattr leave extended attributes alone (macOS: kMDItemWhereFroms,
# com.apple.quarantine — these record the download URL)
# -d, --destructive re-encode the pixels as well (see "Two modes" below)
# --quality N JPEG quality for --destructive (default 85)
# --scale PCT resize percentage for --destructive (default 97)
# --rename rename the file to a random name, keeping the extension
# -q, --quiet only report failures
#
# Two modes, because "no metadata" and "not traceable" are different jobs:
#
# default Lossless. Rewrites the container, copies the compressed image
# data byte for byte. Pixels stay bit-identical, so the file is
# still matchable against the source by perceptual hash, and the
# quantization/Huffman tables still fingerprint the encoder that
# produced it. Right for sanitising an archive you keep.
#
# --destructive Re-encodes: resize by --scale, re-compress at --quality, fresh
# quantization tables, then run the lossless pass over the
# result. Breaks bitstream-level linkage to the source copy.
# Does NOT defeat reverse-image search or perceptual hashing —
# nothing that preserves what the picture looks like can. Needs
# ImageMagick.
#
# What the lossless pass removes, per format:
# JPEG every APPn segment except JFIF (APP0) and Adobe (APP14), all COM
# comments, and any trailer appended after the EOI marker. That covers
# EXIF (camera, GPS, serial, timestamps), XMP, IPTC and the Photoshop
# 8BIM block (by-line, credit, document ancestry).
# PNG everything outside an allowlist of image and colour chunks. An
# allowlist rather than a denylist because private chunks are the worst
# offenders: Fireworks' mkBF/mkBS/mkBT embed the entire editable source
# document, and prVw carries a full preview image.
#
# Why APP14 "Adobe" survives: it is not metadata, it declares the colour
# transform (YCbCr vs RGB vs YCCK). Dropping it turns some CMYK and RGB JPEGs
# into colour-inverted garbage. It is a 12-byte codec record written by many
# encoders, not a Photoshop watermark.
#
# Symlinks are resolved and the real file is rewritten, so cleaning a link no
# longer leaves the target dirty. A file with more than one hard link is
# rewritten in place rather than replaced, so every name sees the clean data —
# that write is not atomic, which is the honest trade for not silently breaking
# the link.
#
# Files are otherwise rewritten via a temp file in the same directory and moved
# into place, so an interrupted run leaves the original intact. A file that
# fails to parse is skipped, never half-written.
#
# Deliberately not handled: GIF, TIFF, HEIC, WebP, video. They need a real
# metadata library; this script would rather refuse than corrupt them. Install
# exiftool for those.
die() { >&2 echo "sz-rm-meta: $*"; exit 1; }
warn() { >&2 echo "sz-rm-meta: warning: $*"; }
list_only=false
out_dir=""
keep_icc=false
keep_xattr=false
destructive=false
rename=false
quality=85
scale=97
quiet=false
files=()
usage() {
cat <<'USAGE'
sz-rm-meta.sh [options] FILE... strip metadata from JPEG/PNG
-l, --list report what would be removed; change nothing
-o, --out DIR write cleaned copies into DIR instead of editing in place
--keep-icc keep the embedded ICC colour profile (stripped by default)
--keep-xattr leave extended attributes alone (macOS keeps the download
URL in kMDItemWhereFroms)
-d, --destructive also re-encode the pixels: breaks the bitstream fingerprint
linking this copy to the source. Needs ImageMagick.
--quality N JPEG quality for --destructive (default 85)
--scale PCT resize percentage for --destructive (default 97)
--rename rename to a random name, keeping the extension
-q, --quiet only report failures
Default mode is lossless: pixels stay bit-identical, which also means the file
still matches the source under reverse-image search or perceptual hashing.
Use --destructive when the goal is that a copy cannot be linked to its origin.
USAGE
}
while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
case "$1" in
-l|--list) list_only=true; shift ;;
-o|--out) [ "$#" -ge 2 ] || die "--out needs a directory"; out_dir="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--keep-icc) keep_icc=true; shift ;;
--keep-xattr) keep_xattr=true; shift ;;
-d|--destructive) destructive=true; shift ;;
--quality) [ "$#" -ge 2 ] || die "--quality needs a number"; quality="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--scale) [ "$#" -ge 2 ] || die "--scale needs a number"; scale="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--rename) rename=true; shift ;;
-q|--quiet) quiet=true; shift ;;
-h|--help) usage; exit 0 ;;
--) shift; files+=("$@"); break ;;
-*) die "unknown option '$1' (try --help)" ;;
*) files+=("$1"); shift ;;
esac
done
[ "${#files[@]}" -gt 0 ] || die "no files given (try --help)"
command -v python3 >/dev/null || die "python3 not found"
case "${quality}" in ''|*[!0-9]*) die "--quality must be a number" ;; esac
case "${scale}" in ''|*[!0-9]*) die "--scale must be a number" ;; esac
if [ "${quality}" -lt 1 ] || [ "${quality}" -gt 100 ]; then die "--quality must be 1-100"; fi
if [ "${scale}" -lt 1 ] || [ "${scale}" -gt 100 ]; then die "--scale must be 1-100"; fi
if [ -n "${out_dir}" ]; then
${list_only} && die "--list and --out are mutually exclusive"
mkdir -p "${out_dir}"
fi
magick_cmd=""
if ${destructive}; then
${list_only} && die "--list and --destructive are mutually exclusive"
if command -v magick >/dev/null 2>&1; then
magick_cmd="magick"
elif command -v convert >/dev/null 2>&1; then
magick_cmd="convert"
else
die "--destructive needs ImageMagick (brew install imagemagick / apt install imagemagick)"
fi
fi
if ${rename} && ${list_only}; then
die "--list and --rename are mutually exclusive"
fi
# Whether this host can inspect xattrs at all. Without a tool we must say so
# rather than report a reassuring zero: Linux browsers write the download URL to
# user.xdg.origin.url, the direct analogue of macOS kMDItemWhereFroms.
xattr_tool=""
if command -v xattr >/dev/null 2>&1; then
xattr_tool="macos"
elif command -v getfattr >/dev/null 2>&1 && command -v setfattr >/dev/null 2>&1; then
xattr_tool="linux"
fi
if [ -z "${xattr_tool}" ] && ! ${keep_xattr} && [ -z "${out_dir}" ]; then
warn "no xattr/setfattr on this host; extended attributes are NOT being checked or cleared"
fi
# Clear the extended attributes that carry provenance. com.apple.provenance is
# system-managed and cannot be removed - it holds no information about the
# image, so it is excluded from the count and left alone.
clear_xattrs() {
local f="$1" n=0 a
case "${xattr_tool}" in
macos)
n=$(xattr "${f}" 2>/dev/null | grep -cv '^com\.apple\.provenance$' || true)
if [ "${n}" -gt 0 ]; then
xattr -c "${f}" 2>/dev/null || true
fi
;;
linux)
while read -r a; do
[ -n "${a}" ] || continue
if setfattr -x "${a}" "${f}" 2>/dev/null; then
n=$((n + 1))
fi
done < <(getfattr --absolute-names -m '^user\.' "${f}" 2>/dev/null |
grep '^user\.' || true)
;;
esac
echo "${n}"
}
count_xattrs() {
case "${xattr_tool}" in
macos) xattr "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep -cv '^com\.apple\.provenance$' || true ;;
linux) getfattr -m '^user\.' "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep -c '^user\.' || true ;;
*) echo 0 ;;
esac
}
strip_one() {
python3 - "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" <<'PY'
import os, shutil, struct, sys, tempfile
src, dst, mode, keep_icc = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4] == "true"
listing = mode == "list"
def fail(msg):
sys.stderr.write("sz-rm-meta: %s: %s\n" % (os.path.basename(src), msg))
sys.exit(2)
# Follow symlinks: replacing the link node would leave the real file dirty while
# reporting success, and would silently turn the link into a regular file.
src = os.path.realpath(src)
in_place = os.path.realpath(dst) == src
if in_place:
dst = src
d = open(src, "rb").read()
removed = {} # label -> [count, bytes], insertion-ordered
def note(label, n):
slot = removed.setdefault(label, [0, 0])
slot[0] += 1
slot[1] += n
def summary():
parts = []
for label, (count, size) in removed.items():
parts.append("%s%s %dB" % (label, " x%d" % count if count > 1 else "", size))
return ", ".join(parts)
def jpeg_label(marker, body):
if marker == 0xFE:
return "comment"
if body.startswith(b"Exif\x00"):
return "EXIF"
if body.startswith(b"http://ns.adobe.com/xap"):
return "XMP"
if body.startswith(b"http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/extension"):
return "XMP-extended"
if body.startswith(b"Photoshop 3.0"):
return "IPTC/8BIM"
if body.startswith(b"ICC_PROFILE"):
return "ICC"
if body.startswith(b"Ducky"):
return "Ducky"
if body.startswith(b"http://ns.google.com"):
return "Google-XMP"
if body.startswith(b"MPF\x00"):
return "MPF"
return "APP%d" % (marker - 0xE0)
def strip_jpeg(d):
out = bytearray(d[:2])
i, n = 2, len(d)
saw_eoi = False
while i < n - 1:
if d[i] != 0xFF:
fail("malformed JPEG: expected a marker at offset %d" % i)
m = d[i + 1]
if m == 0xFF: # fill byte
out += d[i:i + 1]; i += 1; continue
if m == 0xD9: # EOI
out += d[i:i + 2]; i += 2; saw_eoi = True; break
if m == 0x01 or 0xD0 <= m <= 0xD7: # TEM / RSTn: no payload
out += d[i:i + 2]; i += 2; continue
if i + 4 > n:
fail("truncated JPEG segment header")
ln = struct.unpack(">H", d[i + 2:i + 4])[0]
if ln < 2 or i + 2 + ln > n:
fail("truncated JPEG segment (marker FF%02X)" % m)
body = d[i + 4:i + 2 + ln]
keep = True
if 0xE0 <= m <= 0xEF or m == 0xFE:
label = jpeg_label(m, body)
if m == 0xE0 and body.startswith(b"JFIF\x00"):
# Density header. Its last two fields are thumbnail dimensions;
# a non-zero pair means an embedded RGB preview of the image
# rides along, so drop the segment rather than keep the preview.
keep = not (len(body) >= 14 and body[12] and body[13])
if not keep:
note("JFIF-thumbnail", ln + 2)
elif m == 0xE0 and body.startswith(b"JFXX\x00"):
keep = False # exists only to carry a thumbnail
note("JFXX-thumbnail", ln + 2)
elif m == 0xEE and body.startswith(b"Adobe"):
keep = True # colour transform: a codec parameter
elif label == "ICC" and keep_icc:
keep = True
else:
keep = False
note(label, ln + 2)
if keep:
out += d[i:i + 2 + ln]
i += 2 + ln
if m == 0xDA: # entropy-coded scan follows
j = i
while j < n - 1:
if d[j] != 0xFF:
j += 1; continue
nx = d[j + 1]
if nx == 0x00 or 0xD0 <= nx <= 0xD7:
j += 2; continue # byte stuffing / restart marker
if nx == 0xFF:
j += 1; continue # fill byte
break
out += d[i:j]
i = j
if not saw_eoi:
fail("no EOI marker found; refusing to write a truncated file")
if i < n:
note("trailer", n - i) # appended thumbnails, depth maps, junk
return bytes(out)
# Allowlist, not denylist: anything not named here is dropped. Covers the image
# itself, transparency, colour rendering, and APNG animation. Private chunks
# (mkBF/prVw/cmOD and friends) fall through to the drop path by construction.
PNG_KEEP = {
b"IHDR", b"PLTE", b"IDAT", b"IEND", # critical
b"tRNS", b"gAMA", b"cHRM", b"sRGB", b"sBIT", # colour / transparency
b"bKGD", b"pHYs", b"hIST", b"sPLT", # rendering hints
b"acTL", b"fcTL", b"fdAT", # APNG: dropping these
} # would flatten the animation
def strip_png(d):
out = bytearray(d[:8])
i, n = 8, len(d)
saw_end = False
while i + 8 <= n:
ln = struct.unpack(">I", d[i:i + 4])[0]
typ = d[i + 4:i + 8]
end = i + 12 + ln
if end > n:
fail("truncated PNG chunk '%s'" % typ.decode("ascii", "replace"))
keep = typ in PNG_KEEP or (typ == b"iCCP" and keep_icc)
if keep:
out += d[i:end]
else:
note(typ.decode("ascii", "replace"), ln + 12)
i = end
if typ == b"IEND":
saw_end = True
break
if not saw_end:
fail("no IEND chunk found; refusing to write a truncated file")
if i < n:
note("trailer", n - i)
return bytes(out)
if d[:2] == b"\xff\xd8":
cleaned = strip_jpeg(d)
elif d[:8] == b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n":
cleaned = strip_png(d)
else:
fail("unsupported format (only JPEG and PNG; use exiftool for others)")
links = os.stat(src).st_nlink if in_place else 1
if not listing and (removed or not in_place):
if in_place and links > 1:
# Replacing the inode would clean this name and leave every other hard
# link holding the original metadata. Rewrite the inode instead so all
# names see the clean data, accepting a non-atomic write.
with open(dst, "r+b") as fh:
fh.write(cleaned)
fh.truncate()
else:
# Write beside the destination so the rename is atomic on the same volume.
dst_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(dst)) or "."
fd, tmp = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=dst_dir, prefix=".sz-rm-meta.")
try:
with os.fdopen(fd, "wb") as fh:
fh.write(cleaned)
shutil.copymode(src, tmp)
os.replace(tmp, dst)
except BaseException:
if os.path.exists(tmp):
os.unlink(tmp)
raise
print("%d\t%d\t%d\t%s" % (len(d), len(cleaned), links, summary()))
PY
}
# Re-encode into a temp file: new quantization tables, new bitstream, slightly
# different dimensions. -strip drops what ImageMagick knows about; the lossless
# pass afterwards catches what it leaves behind (it writes its own tEXt/date
# chunks into PNG, for one).
reencode() {
local src="$1" tmp="$2"
"${magick_cmd}" "${src}" -strip -resize "${scale}%" -quality "${quality}" \
-interlace none "${tmp}" 2>/dev/null
}
random_name() {
local ext="${1##*.}"
local stem
stem=$(LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-z0-9' </dev/urandom | head -c 12)
if [ "${ext}" = "$1" ]; then
echo "${stem}"
else
echo "${stem}.${ext}"
fi
}
status=0
for f in "${files[@]}"; do
[ -f "${f}" ] || { >&2 echo "sz-rm-meta: not a file: ${f}"; status=1; continue; }
orig_size=$(python3 -c 'import os,sys; print(os.path.getsize(sys.argv[1]))' "${f}")
dst="${f}"
[ -n "${out_dir}" ] && dst="${out_dir%/}/$(basename "${f}")"
# Count before rewriting: the rewrite replaces the inode, which drops the
# xattrs on its own, so counting afterwards would always report zero. In
# --out mode the source is never touched and the fresh copy starts with no
# xattrs, so there is nothing to clear or report.
xa=0
if ! ${keep_xattr} && [ -z "${out_dir}" ]; then
xa=$(count_xattrs "${f}")
fi
src="${f}"
tmp_reenc=""
if ${destructive}; then
tmp_reenc="$(dirname "${dst}")/.sz-rm-meta-reenc.$$.$(basename "${f}")"
if ! reencode "${f}" "${tmp_reenc}"; then
rm -f "${tmp_reenc}"
>&2 echo "sz-rm-meta: ${f}: re-encode failed"
status=1; continue
fi
src="${tmp_reenc}"
fi
mode="strip"; ${list_only} && mode="list"
if ! result=$(strip_one "${src}" "${dst}" "${mode}" "${keep_icc}"); then
[ -n "${tmp_reenc}" ] && rm -f "${tmp_reenc}"
status=1; continue
fi
if [ -n "${tmp_reenc}" ]; then
rm -f "${tmp_reenc}"
fi
# Still needed for a file that was already clean, and for the hard-link path
# where the inode survives the rewrite along with its xattrs.
if [ "${xa}" -gt 0 ] && ! ${list_only}; then
clear_xattrs "${dst}" >/dev/null
fi
after=$(echo "${result}" | cut -f2)
links=$(echo "${result}" | cut -f3)
removed=$(echo "${result}" | cut -f4)
final="${dst}"
if ${rename} && ! ${list_only}; then
final="$(dirname "${dst}")/$(random_name "$(basename "${dst}")")"
mv -n "${dst}" "${final}" || { >&2 echo "sz-rm-meta: rename failed: ${dst}"; status=1; final="${dst}"; }
fi
${quiet} && continue
detail="${removed}"
if [ "${xa}" -gt 0 ]; then
plural=s; [ "${xa}" -eq 1 ] && plural=
detail="${detail:+${detail}, }${xa} xattr${plural}"
fi
if [ -z "${detail}" ] && ! ${destructive}; then
echo "${f}: already clean"
elif ${list_only}; then
echo "${f}: would remove ${detail} (${orig_size} -> ${after} bytes)"
else
if ${destructive}; then
action="re-encoded q${quality} @${scale}%${detail:+, removed ${detail}}"
else
action="removed ${detail}"
fi
line="${f}: ${action} (${orig_size} -> ${after} bytes)"
[ "${links}" -gt 1 ] && line="${line} [${links} hard links, rewritten in place]"
[ "${final}" != "${dst}" ] && line="${line} -> $(basename "${final}")"
echo "${line}"
fi
done
exit "${status}"
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